Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-26
BIZ, NYE
Tells How He Searched for = Barber.
williams Bravery.

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AsHEviLLE, Y. c. Feb. l.
When | first came here began TO cast about
me for a good, fluent BARRIER. with whom l
could associate during the winter; one who
would nus I've ashamed 10 be seen converslnS
with me. aud. still wthai, a man who could
administer a clean shave without pain.
Ifeil into the hands OF a tail, brunette or
phan about ) Years Of age, named Plum
I.avy-pronouncd Levi. Everybody said
that Plum was a good hsircutter. aud. very
likely. a good shaver, too. Ii was even re
Inrte,i that people came here frequently from
New York To get their hair trimmed.
The first time l visited the shop Plum
wasn't there personally. | took the chair Of
an assistant IL was very dIsagreeable
chair. with caked places in it Ii WAS up
hclStcrci with body brussels, and the seat
had ho,;,s in it. The room is heated by
mean ~ fireplace, and the water for shay
ing Is l. In a saucepan on the Goals. Tn"
asSiSta' a perfect gentleman, though
He d. ing he could in social way to
make nv troubles For half an
hour ntpIv dazzled me with his con
yersu -ers and threw every intu-
ence to make me cuntented. He
told 1 s3,out the country and its
resou men he got through with me
wrr, 1 with wet ewes. This may
seem ,hvsical impo~>ibility, hut !
did if
For after that decided not to
shave. Nv beard is ginger colored
with red in it: but others have
risen and won a deathless name
who W ind Of heard, SO thought l
would nw and thus be able 10 horrify
~,,- ,b,s ?, n mara rhorn,iph state of
discipline han am now able to maintain.
Now and ben would go into the shop, how
ever, heping that Plum might be there. and
in that case ] would have one more old
fashioned shave .sfore l abandoned myself
70 the wild and woolly depths of a tough,
red heard: hut Mr.. Levy was engaged in
building a wing on his house, and SO l would
inhale a L .moke rom the fireplace and
70 awaN 1T r on | decided that would
give the c;'r assistant hack at my beard
He locke Se likely young man whose
parenfs We. .Iapendent on him, 50 one day
got up into ri> chair.
His chair Tts not 50 hard TO sit in as the
first one, Iu- IL had a very feverish breath
and the heal rest occasionally slipped a cog
and fell abudt four inches. like the cellar door
of a cihiet stood this until | got shaved
down 20 a line even with the angle Of the jaw,
and then said I did not care about having
nv throat whiskers shaved off. paid my
reckoning and went away with red tippet
Of ginger coored plush around the suburbs of
nv neck like "A middle aged Mormon on his
way to the endowment house.
In two weeks a man who claimed to be
friendly to nv interests came to me and in
hoar,s. voice informed me that Plum Levy
was at work in the shop
Iwent there at rapid rate. In the corner
near the chair, with a blue fly net on it, stood
a tall gentleman on African descent. He
smilel pleasantly on me through a pair Of
iron bound spectacles and told me in haugh-
" manner 10 he seated sprang gayly into
his rcd old chair. knocking out the dust and
hair of forgotten generations. and Plum Levy
ran his skinny black fingers over the desolate
site of nv once hair. 1t did not take him
long to decide that il was doubtless shave
that desired like to meet man, be he
white or black, who can jump at a conclusion
that way with the utmost agility and always
hit it right.